Canada is a young nation, is more ways then one. It nost that anyone dresses young, acts young, and when old is still young in apearance, canadian and american society is a soceity of youthfullness, noone is old anymore around here, it seems. But another thing that makes everyone young in modern soceity, and why not even call it the "formula of eternal youth" also known as wild consumption, dont that keep you young hein??
Because being young and acting you doesnt come for free, of course!!! Old age, rincles, depression, demensia, that sure comes for free and often is very hard to run from it, but youth, you must pay for it!!
I am not complaining about a youthfull society, but its hard to not to see that much of this ilution, its greatly fantasy, then again, you pay for fantasies, not reality since the real is far easier to find then is counter part, fantasy.
But this "New Eden" seems also to forget other Real things, and not just on the fantasy departament, we just have to ask, "where the hell is the native in this multi cultural society, of youthfullness??" I know where it is, Nowhere!! In fact althout the natives dress more like blacks from the american gettho and live intentionaly separate from the rest of society, and lets not forget their independent anger towards the past with the white man..adding all up, the native seems to be not represented on the canadian dream that much.
American societies were idealised as new societies different then the european ones, represented by its Old ideas, Old traditions and Old heirarchies, suming the whole idea of an overall Old Europe ; with the creation of America and Canada came the wish to create a New Society, New Values and even a New Mankind.
The idea and ideal of the Americas was and is a great one, but it suffers from a few pitfalls that we are so familiar with. If someone want to be whoever it wants to be and in a Godless world, with politics being of no interest, and the only drive of a society is doing money and spending it in equal Madness, what borns out of this "ashes" is really a strange "phonix".
What comes from a society like this, adding a bling individualism where the bigger the ego the better seems to be, and while not trying not to being too concervative in my vision, is a hollow group of individuals where the God of money and the "dreams", and ocational nightmares, they sell are the only way to "build" yourself. So much for a "primicing, new, land", when the individual its ultimately alone, acting under the values of big corporations they "help" him/her define him or herself.
I am not agains freedom and individual expression, I in fact value them alot what its hard to me to to grasp its the interpretation of this values in American societies since what this society ultimately became was some kind of a Social Darwinism. This society of youfull dreams and aspirations is missing one big and essential tihng is my perspective, something that can only be found not just on the other side of the Ocean, in Europe, but also down South in Latin America, that is, a strong communitarian spirit.
Gandh is famous by saying "in a eye for an eye world, people will end up blind" seems to see its realization in todays american and canadian society, where having and being the best matters more having a meaningfull connection with others and really caring. In Latin American what binds people togheter is God and tradition, is Europe is heirarchy and social stratues, while society is becoming more and more americanised.
So it seems some Old things do matter is this New new New society. But we live in a different world, we cannot bring old values, to this new land and also the religios organizations that are important in the americas value wealth and power as a sign of God Will, so then again its not by a lack of religion but the way concervative values organize themselfs in importance.
----------(willl continue)
-)(Tiago)(-
Friday 29 June 2012
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Time and time...again
Time is a interesting thing, life too. But what would be life without time?? no fun for sure, but it seems its Time that give all its meaning, its importance, its Power. In Alice in Wonderland, of my favorites books of all time the Rabbit runs in a hurry "O dear! O dear! I shall be late!" so its the nature of time, always in a hurry, there is never time for anything, in Life things are either too good and go so fast or so terribly bad that time seems to enjoy torturing us in its sssslllloooowwwwneesss.
"Go fast Time can you??!! Time now go slow!!...now I feel better, now go slow Time, please!!" and so we are, we fragil little Humans changed by Time. But we are far from being "victims" of Time, all depends on how we use it or how we play with it, "Play with Time?!! The Horror!!"well....."Two things you never play with, Time and Food!!" says often Mother Destiny...I guess she might be right!!
Time sure have been giving me something to think about about and thats another good thing about Time, it makes you think!! when you stop and look back at life and look ahead at the Future, its without a shadow of a doubt a good conversation topic...with yourself!!
But as I was writting, before being inturrupted by another chain of thought that always take me somewhere else, Time and Life, two things you can never live without and if you doubt me that you cant live without them, let me just tell you, many have tryed but no one returned to tell how it was!!
Yes, Time eat us all in a good all greek mithological way, Goya once painted a painting of Kronos (the good of Time) eating its suns, its a brutal unhumane painting, but the real brutality resides on what lies beneath, Death, our own Death!! I know I am a bit young to think about such "non sence", many would just advice me to " enjoy your life and do the best out of it!!" I agree with them, I am doing the best i can to enjoy it, to find some meaning, some purpose, some pleasure in it and its on Times like this these people seem to go on the religious path.
" On box number 2, we have Buddha" "On box number 3 Jesus" "On box number 4 you have a Life driven by greed and personal ignorance" I to some extend already did my choosing, box nunber 3?? but not all questions are answered by a sacret book or a Saviour, or even by psycotherapy founded by a sir that had some parent issues and saw sex everywhere, mister Freud!
No, Time is making me think about my purpose in here and on how i havent felt that I havent Lived Life as fully as i wanted, because the World seems often so confusing, so strange and unpredictable. But not just the world, but also myself. I am not looking for "bullet proof answers" or some "already made recepe of complete happyness" buy now limited time offer $12.99. No, No, No!! Life is not a TV show or a comodity you can use or abuse as you wish for, Life is fragil but its whats inside us that make it so much more important. Life is made of potentalities and oportunities, yes I know we all know that, we read the books, we did some thinking and we are all very mature!! I know, I know, but still that never stop us from making mistakes....
Time is tiking for you and for everyone, still we prefer to live a life of senceless spending, senceless pretending and numbing self unawareness...we live in Anxious times!! In times where the meaningfull and important became boring and irrelevant, because the life and fashion of some people you will never know is more important then your/our self knowledge!!
Time and Life is like the Rabbit of Alice in Wonderland, on the run, you can go after him, but how sure if you will ever catch him? you can try!! But while me and you do that, lets figure out who we are, with the little honesty we have left!!
-)(Tiago)(-
"Go fast Time can you??!! Time now go slow!!...now I feel better, now go slow Time, please!!" and so we are, we fragil little Humans changed by Time. But we are far from being "victims" of Time, all depends on how we use it or how we play with it, "Play with Time?!! The Horror!!"well....."Two things you never play with, Time and Food!!" says often Mother Destiny...I guess she might be right!!
Time sure have been giving me something to think about about and thats another good thing about Time, it makes you think!! when you stop and look back at life and look ahead at the Future, its without a shadow of a doubt a good conversation topic...with yourself!!
But as I was writting, before being inturrupted by another chain of thought that always take me somewhere else, Time and Life, two things you can never live without and if you doubt me that you cant live without them, let me just tell you, many have tryed but no one returned to tell how it was!!
Yes, Time eat us all in a good all greek mithological way, Goya once painted a painting of Kronos (the good of Time) eating its suns, its a brutal unhumane painting, but the real brutality resides on what lies beneath, Death, our own Death!! I know I am a bit young to think about such "non sence", many would just advice me to " enjoy your life and do the best out of it!!" I agree with them, I am doing the best i can to enjoy it, to find some meaning, some purpose, some pleasure in it and its on Times like this these people seem to go on the religious path.
" On box number 2, we have Buddha" "On box number 3 Jesus" "On box number 4 you have a Life driven by greed and personal ignorance" I to some extend already did my choosing, box nunber 3?? but not all questions are answered by a sacret book or a Saviour, or even by psycotherapy founded by a sir that had some parent issues and saw sex everywhere, mister Freud!
No, Time is making me think about my purpose in here and on how i havent felt that I havent Lived Life as fully as i wanted, because the World seems often so confusing, so strange and unpredictable. But not just the world, but also myself. I am not looking for "bullet proof answers" or some "already made recepe of complete happyness" buy now limited time offer $12.99. No, No, No!! Life is not a TV show or a comodity you can use or abuse as you wish for, Life is fragil but its whats inside us that make it so much more important. Life is made of potentalities and oportunities, yes I know we all know that, we read the books, we did some thinking and we are all very mature!! I know, I know, but still that never stop us from making mistakes....
Time is tiking for you and for everyone, still we prefer to live a life of senceless spending, senceless pretending and numbing self unawareness...we live in Anxious times!! In times where the meaningfull and important became boring and irrelevant, because the life and fashion of some people you will never know is more important then your/our self knowledge!!
Time and Life is like the Rabbit of Alice in Wonderland, on the run, you can go after him, but how sure if you will ever catch him? you can try!! But while me and you do that, lets figure out who we are, with the little honesty we have left!!
-)(Tiago)(-
Sunday 24 June 2012
Visa de Empleo
Corrí por toda la casa buscando a alguien cercano a mí que pudiera disfrutar de este momento conmigo. ¡No pude encontrar a nadie! Pero, esto no es una historia triste…
Llamé a mi madre que está lejos, lejos, lejos de mí y sí, ella está / estaba celebrando conmigo. Solicité un puesto de trabajo 5 minutos después que abrí el correo electrónico con mis documentos. Estoy feliz de estar finalmente en condiciones de trabajar y ahí es donde empieza mi dilema.
Al día siguiente, el sábado, le dije a todos los seres humanos que cruzaron mi camino, la buena noticia, muchos de ellos estaban contentos por mí, y mi "status" en Facebook, llamo la atención de mis amigos más cercanos y familiares; todos ellos enviaron sus felicitaciones y mejores deseos (Todos sabían lo frustrante que ha sido para mí, no poder trabajar, y no voy a hablar de los problemas financieros.) Esto no es una historia triste…
Un amigo me preguntó: ¿Es que realmente quieren trabajar? <!Oh sí, quiero!> Le contesté a él con los ojos bien abiertos. Empezamos a hablar sobre el costo de vida aquí en Canadá y lo caro que es. (Y sí que lo es y también lo son muchos otros lugares.) De todos modos quedamos de acuerdo en la necesidad de dinero, y luego seguí con mi día.
Pero mi pregunta es: ¿Nunca seremos capaces de disfrutar del trabajo? ¿De ser feliz con nuestro empleo? En este momento, yo creo que voy a encontrar mi trabajo ideal; ¡Pero he encontrado mi trabajo ideal antes y no siempre fue ideal! Oh Dios! Ok, esto No es una historia triste.
Hoy es domingo y mi búsqueda de trabajo se inicia / continua, esta semana y espero que esto siga siendo una historia no triste...
Beatriz Cabrera Jun/24 2012
Work Visa
I ran around the house looking for somebody close to me that could enjoy that moment with me. I couldn’t found anybody… But, this is not a sad story! I called my mother that is far, far, far from me and yes, she is/was happy with me. I applied for a job 5 minutes after I opened the e mail with my documents. I am happy to finally be able to work and there is where my dilemma begins…
At the next day on Saturday, I told every single human that crossed my way, the good new; many of them were happy for me, and my “status” on "Face-book" called the attention of my closest friends and family; they all sent their congratulations and best wishes (they all knew how frustrating has been for me, not to be able to work; and I am NOT going to mention the financial struggles... This is NOT a sad story!); a friend asked me: Do you really want to work? Ooh Yes I want to. I replied at him with my eyes wide open. We start talking about cost of living here in Canada and how expensive is. (And yes it is and so are many other places.) Anyway we both agree in the need of money, and then I carried on with my day. But my question is: We will never be able to enjoy work? Be happy with our jobs? Right now, I think I am going to find my ideal job, but I have found my ideal job before and not always it was ideal!
Today is Sunday and my search for a job will begins/continue this week, I hope this continue being not a sad story…
Beatriz Cabrera Jun/24 2012
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